Subject: Re: HEADS UP: migration to fully dynamic linked "base" system
To: Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: current-users
Date: 08/26/2002 20:48:25
In message <Pine.LNX.4.21.0208270151160.4943-100000@Tempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny
 Billquist writes:
>On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Greg A. Woods wrote:
>
>> Ah, no, right in /usr, as in this example from the V7 distribution tape:
>> 
>> 	root:VwL97VCAx1Qhs:0:1::/:
>> 	daemon:x:1:1::/:
>> 	sys::2:2::/usr/sys:
>> 	bin::3:3::/bin:
>> 	uucp::4:4::/usr/lib/uucp:/usr/lib/uucico
>> 	dmr::7:3::/usr/dmr:
>> 
>> "dmr" being of course a default account for Dennis Ritchie.
>
>Yes.
>I don't care to check up on a V7 system right now, but I seem to remember
>that /usr/home was pretty common by then, even if dmr still hang around in
>/usr.

No, definitely not.

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